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ROC approach to forecasting recessions using daily yield spreads

Even though many studies have established the existence of structural breaks and declining predictability in the relationship between GDP growth and yield spreads, business analysts continue to watch for the inversion of the spread as one of the leading indicators for recessions. We use the Receivin...

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Autores principales: Lahiri, Kajal, Yang, Cheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36373026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11369-022-00287-y
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description Even though many studies have established the existence of structural breaks and declining predictability in the relationship between GDP growth and yield spreads, business analysts continue to watch for the inversion of the spread as one of the leading indicators for recessions. We use the Receiving Operating Characteristics (ROC) approach, to reevaluate the enduring power of spread to forecast recessions, notwithstanding the temporal instabilities. We identify the value of the spread that produces the highest discriminatory power as measured by different functionals of the ROC curve e.g., the hit rate, false alarm rate, and the Youden’s index. Based on data starting from January 2, 1962, we find that the optimal threshold has drifted upwards from zero since the early 1980s, and the deteriorating power of yield spread can largely be restored once the optimal cut-off values are used to issue recession forecasts.
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spelling pubmed-96383942022-11-07 ROC approach to forecasting recessions using daily yield spreads Lahiri, Kajal Yang, Cheng Bus Econ Original Article Even though many studies have established the existence of structural breaks and declining predictability in the relationship between GDP growth and yield spreads, business analysts continue to watch for the inversion of the spread as one of the leading indicators for recessions. We use the Receiving Operating Characteristics (ROC) approach, to reevaluate the enduring power of spread to forecast recessions, notwithstanding the temporal instabilities. We identify the value of the spread that produces the highest discriminatory power as measured by different functionals of the ROC curve e.g., the hit rate, false alarm rate, and the Youden’s index. Based on data starting from January 2, 1962, we find that the optimal threshold has drifted upwards from zero since the early 1980s, and the deteriorating power of yield spread can largely be restored once the optimal cut-off values are used to issue recession forecasts. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-11-05 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9638394/ /pubmed/36373026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11369-022-00287-y Text en © National Association for Business Economics 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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